My leukemia's back.

[hbhoffman]

X a million!

Agreed! You can't waste your energy wondering what they missed. Get a friend to drive you and enjoy a cup of tea and fellowship on the ride. Can you ask someone for help with that? As for your old "normal", are you sure it wasn't an illusion?? Go from here and build a new normal. Change is here to stay. Normal isn't all that great. What is great, is being where God wants us to be and being at peace with it. That should be normal.
Loved the video of Kendra!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

heck what's normal anyways....recovery takes a long time...try to enjoy your days God only gives them to you one at a time. Before you know it they'll all be memories.

 

[sourland]

Normal is continually being revised. My 'normal' of today is far different from my 'normal' at 30 years old. The Princess says that's not all bad and that using normal and me in the same sentence is an oxymoron. Is she calling me something bad?

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I'd say it was a complement

 

[N F C]

I'd say it was a complement

x2

Take it as a compliment @sourland ! Who wants the same ol, same ol forever. Change is good (and inevitable).

 

[Blooie]

My sister's normal was a job she loved, a big, bustling family coming and going at her house all the time, so healthy she very rarely even caught a cold, and a joyful giggle and bouncy personality. Suddenly she became a woman on her death bed, her family quiet and subdued, tears, medical procedures, pill and doctors all in one long, awful night. Christmas night 3 years ago she had an acute onset of severe back pain. It got so bad she collapsed. Russ (hubby) rushed her to the ER. She had a previously unknown abdominal aortic aneurysm that ruptured. Emergency surgery repaired that but she threw so many clots that her kidneys died.

Her new normal is a ton of pills, hemodialysis 3 times a week, a double heart bypass last summer, constant monitoring, and a slew of doctors of all specialties who now know her on sight. She was recovering and had accepted this as her "new normal" when her little granddaughter Ashley was diagnosed with leukemia this January. That was a blow with stress levels we were afraid would just destroy her.

And you know what? She's back to giggling, her big family running in and out all the time, and that ornery personality which was her trademark. She says, "I can live with a 'new normal.' What I won't be able to handle is accepting it as all there is." Go, Linda, go! She reminds me of you, Rachel. Down once in awhile, but never out!

 

[N F C]

@Blooie it sounds like amazing women run in your family

 

[Redeemed]

Try my cousins hospital . It has pioneered the research in this cancer. Though primary a Children's Hospital St.Judes would have the latest information on this disease. . Danny Thomas known to family as Jacob Jachoby There are several doctors there who would be his children or grand children and the public spoksperson would be his daughter known to his family as MaryAnn, who was an Actress as well.

 

[3goodeggs]

Normal is continually being revised. My 'normal' of today is far different from my 'normal' at 30 years old. The Princess says that's not all bad and that using normal and me in the same sentence is an oxymoron. Is she calling me something bad?

If normal is the mean of the bell curve, then who'd want that. Strive for the fringes.

 

[Bunnylady]

Normal is continually being revised. My 'normal' of today is far different from my 'normal' at 30 years old. The Princess says that's not all bad and that using normal and me in the same sentence is an oxymoron. Is she calling me something bad?

Aaugh! Not again!








(I knew the Princess and I had something in common!)

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